as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a blurry image in the foreground of the photograph
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Recent Examples of blurry
Even getting off the boat is very blurry to me.
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Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Even now, the line between love and loss is blurry.
—Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
This past summer, blurry vacation photos of the couple on a tropical island reignited the buzz as locals at the resort reportedly confirmed their presence, and images quickly circulated online.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The lines were blurry back then.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Even now, the line between love and loss is blurry.
—Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
This past summer, blurry vacation photos of the couple on a tropical island reignited the buzz as locals at the resort reportedly confirmed their presence, and images quickly circulated online.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The lines were blurry back then.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blurry
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And not just vague signs, actual amyloid plaques and tau tangles, the same hallmarks seen in human patients.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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A lot of people bounce through the system because these symptoms are so vague.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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From this distance, Swift detected the faint ultraviolet glow of hydroxyl (OH), the product of water molecules broken apart by sunlight, the study reports.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Mifsuds have invited the community to become a part of the menu curation process, by welcoming name suggestions for Six Spoke’s latest brews, like the Vernor Hazeway, a hazy IPA.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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The series has a hazy, dreamlike quality in which narrative logic bends but emotional coherence holds.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Blurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurry. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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